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Daily Archives: June 14, 2018

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Exhausting, yet fun, travel in North America

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Six weeks, eleven flights, six states, one one-week cruise and four countries (not including the USA). That is feeble compared with the Beatles’ tour of the USA in 1965 (twenty-five cities in thirty days),...
Apartheid Week on the University of California, Irvine campus. Credit: AMCHA Initiative.

Liberal Zionism isn’t dead, but needs to wake up to new realities

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Pity the poor liberal Zionist. American Jews who identify as both political liberals and supporters of Israel are speaking up lately about their difficult plight. They have been caught in the crossfire between leftist...
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, left, and Russian President Vladimir Putin seen during a wreath-laying ceremony at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Moscow, on May 9, 2018. Credit: Amos Ben Gershom/GPO.

Israel warned to avoid strikes against Syria as World Cup kicks off in Russia...

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With the 2018 FIFA World Cup soccer tournament kicking off on Thursday, host nation Russia has made it clear that it expects Israel and other Middle Eastern states to avoid an escalation in the...
Head of the Palestinian Football Association Jibril Rajoub speaks during a press conference in the West Bank city of Ramallah on June 6, 2018. Photo by Flash90.

Palestinian soccer chief’s bid for FIFA to net ‎Israel backfires

The soccer’s world governing body rejected a demand on Wednesday presented by Palestinian Football Association ‎President Jibril Rajoub to impose sanctions on and ‎‎suspend countries that “violate citizens’ ‎rights.‎” The bid, which clearly targeted Israel,...
Children and parents of Sderot making kites for the festival. Credit: Sderot Municipality Spokesperson.

Kids in embattled Israeli city of Sderot take time to show kites can elicit...

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In a show of hope and defiance in the face of the hundreds of “terror kites” and flaming helium balloons launched into southern Israel by Palestinian terrorists in Gaza, the children of the southern...
IfNotNow protesters. Credit: Facebook.

Camp Ramah leadership reaffirms its message: No partnership with IfNotNow

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It has become clear in recent months that the goal posts of the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement have spread from college campuses to the younger worlds of high schools. Now, it’s taking aim at...
Republican candidate for the U.S. Senate from New Jersey Bob Hugin speaks alongside his wife and daughter. Credit: Bob Hugin for Senate Facebook page.

In New Jersey, Republican Senate-challenger puts longtime Israel supporter to the test

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In an era in which support for Israel within the Democratic Party is waning—a reversal of previous decades of steadfast commitment—strong Democratic Israel allies are as important as ever to a Jewish state that...
Tony Award winners Katrina Lenk and Tony Shalhoub in The Band’s Visit | via Twitter/@thebandsvisit

Israeli Musical Hits the Right Notes

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In a rare moment in Israel’s fractious relationship with the “liberal” media, the Jewish state was riding high this week in the pages of The New York Times and other publications, all thanks to a quintessentially...

WJC President Ronald S. Lauder thanks Bulgarian PM Boyko Borisov for dedication to Jewish...

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JERUSALEM – World Jewish Congress President Ronald Lauder has conveyed his gratitude to Bulgarian Prime Minister Boyko Borisov for all he has done and continues to do to address the needs and concerns of...

Parashat Korach קֹרַח

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The first word in our Parasha is “Vayikach “וַיִּקַּח “ (and he took). We understand from this word that when one “takes” without asking, one should expect to “receive” the consequences. It is always...